10 Verbs to Use for the Word blockhouses

The volunteers who rode against the Indian towns also spied out the land and chose the best spots whereon to build their blockhouses and palisaded villages as soon as a truce might be made, or the foe driven for the moment farther from the border.

The insurgents lost fifty-seven killed and ninety-six seriously wounded, but the result was to throw the whole upper Herzegovina into their hands, and they captured and destroyed all the small blockhouses and forts not armed with artillery.

The others who took the blockhouse must be over there, for their trail lies between us and the river.

Yet, if we could not go far enough to the right to silence their field guns and carry that part of their line, they would have a fatal cross fire on troops attacking blockhouse

[203] On the following day Cailles reported that he had occupied blockhouse No. 12, which was within the American lines, and added the following significant statement: "The order of yesterday was, on hearing the first shots from Santa Ana, for my whole force to hurl themselves on the American line of trenches, and to follow the living to Manila.

When the command reached the famous stone blockhouse it was commanded by a second sergeant, who was promoted on the field of battle for extraordinary bravery.

At intervals, also, stood the Spanish blockhouses.

" On the same day General Anderson wrote to Aguinaldo, asking permission to occupy a trench facing blockhouse No. 14, in order to place artillery to destroy it.

After these exploits, he besieged the blockhouse of Magdalena, which Luis de Arriaga only succeeded in defending by the greatest efforts.

BOOK V TO CARDINAL LUDOVICO D'ARAGON, NEPHEW OF OUR KING Acting upon the parting counsel of his brother, the Adelantado, Bartholomew Columbus, constructed a blockhouse at the mines, which he called El Dorado, because the labourers discovered gold in the earth with which they were building its walls.

10 Verbs to Use for the Word  blockhouses